Academic interests
- Feminist film theory
- Gender representation in art/culture and culture production
- Gender conventions and body practices in ballet/dance
- The monstrous-feminine as revolt
- Affect, feeling and emotion in response to texts
- Textual/visual analysis
- Motherhood and female agency
- Parenthood, motherhood and care theory
- Climate fiction (film, TV and literature)
- Representations of disability
- Norwegian contemporary film
- Norwegian contemporary literature and «autofiction»
- Cultural studies
- Feminist theory
- Gender theory
Teaching
- KFL1010 – Introduction to interdisciplinary gender studies
- Guest lecturer at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in feminist film and TV
Background
Journalist and writer with 23 years of work experience from e.g. The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, The National Theatre and the Norwegian daily newspaper Dagbladet. Has published three works of fiction: the short story collections The Whole World Must Love Us (Hele verden skal elske oss, 2023) and Grown-Up Things (Voksenting, 2010), and the novel New City (NY BY, 2013); a member of The Norwegian Authors’ Union since 2014. Has co-edited several anthologies, and is currently working on a performative project about artistic agency and motherhood.
Master thesis
«Rebels on the Verge of an Artistic Breakthrough. Female representation in the Norwegian contemporary films Ninjababy, Gritt and The Worst Person in the World» (published in Norwegian). Department of Media and Communication, The University of Oslo, 2023.